November was mostly about writing a grant proposal for DARPA. It has been 110% technical work since then. Beginning in February, I will shift to writing pretty PowerPoint slides for the company. I should have a minimum viable prototype by then.
I worked on an experiment to build a continuous integration environment for the software assets of the RISC-V Foundation; learning Groovy and Gradle the process. The prototype uses Jenkins2 for which I have been pleasantly surprised. My previous experience was Jenkins 1.x. I published source code for the prototype here. I plan to volunteer some time to help coordinate some this activity. It is a small <5%-of-week commitment.
I began to move parts of my internal wiki to GitHub gists. I plan to add more over time.
Finally, I am accumulating notes on how to bootstrap RocketChip. You can find the notes here.
Also, compared to six months ago, I am beginning to feel very comfortable writing functional code using Scala. I struggle a bit here and there (i.e., when recursion comes into play), but overall it is a positive experience. If I had time, I would love to take an advanced class. It would be interesting to re-learn data structures, algorithms through a functional lense.
